Confirmed with Link: Granato hires his coaching staff (post #43)

[Jim Bob]

 

[Buffaloed]

The Sabres have to quit buying all their assistant coaches at Dollar General. Granato could really use a veteran, no nonsense, hard nosed assistant tp see his way through this season. An older former NHL coach would have been ideal. He basically has a staff of friends that want to be friends with the players and as a whole they lack NHL coaching experience.

 

[KeyserSoze81]

The Sabres have to quit buying all their assistant coaches at Dollar General. Granato could really use a veteran, no nonsense, hard nosed assistant tp see his way through this season. An older former NHL coach would have been ideal. He basically has a staff of friends that want to be friends with the players and as a whole they lack NHL coaching experience.

Terry, we don’t need to spend money on qualified outside assistant coaches, we have assistant coaches at home.

Assistant coaches at home:

 

[member 334057]

Perhaps they can hire a linguistics coach for some of the Russian prospects to help them acclimate and learn the language, Rob Ray still lives in the area, perfect hire.

 

[Chainshot]

Perhaps they can hire a linguistics coach for some of the Russian prospects to help them acclimate and learn the language, Rob Ray still lives in the area, perfect hire.

Olga Khmylev perhaps?

 

[itwasaforwardpass]

Whoever designs the powerplay needs a talking to. They just copy pasted the predictable PP during the Eichel years, but without Eichel.

 

[Jim Bob]

'There’s no egos in here': Getting to know the Sabres' new assistant coaches — and their development philosophy

“Obviously, Donny’s a hammer,” Wilford said. “This is his first chance, too, and he wants things a certain way. But it’s very collaborative with all of us. He lets all of us take turns running our areas. Even if it’s not in your area, you can show something that might help the entire group.

“There’s no egos in here. As a group, it’s, ‘How are we going to get better today?’”

They’re all convinced the right guy is in charge. Fans have embraced Granato’s public persona, and his assistants see more in the back rooms.

“It’s genuine, it’s authentic, it’s real,” Ellis said. “He treats people right. He has the passion that we as an organization want to gravitate toward. He’s got an incredible hockey mind.

“We have a real collaborative approach, and Donny is unique in that sense. He has a real sense of self, a real sense of objective as to how we’re trying to build and what we want to achieve as a group.”
Although they’re striving for immediate improvement, the coaches are aware Buffalo’s turnaround will be a process.

“We kind of use the mentality of ‘now and next,’” Ellis said. “We’re looking at, ‘What can we do right now and what can we do moving forward?’ For us, we’re looking to stack small victories on top of each other, whether it’s one rep, one drill, one period, one game, one shift — all of the above.

“That’s the mentality. We’re trying to create some positive traction. We’re trying to do this thing together.”

The newcomers are excited by the challenge. The weather is just an added bonus.

“When I come into work, it’s awesome,” Christie said. “You have to take some lumps in order to learn, and you’ve got to make sure that you learned from them. I think that’s what Grats strives to every day with all of us is how can we get better?

“We’ve got to own it. We’ve got to move forward. I know what we’re going through is going to make us better.”